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From: Wizzle <wizzle@cci-internet.com>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Matrox problems...
Date: 06 Apr 190 07:14:19 -0700
Oh goody goody goody!!! Not only do I get to buy the Matrox card but I can
rub the NT problem in the nose of my smart-*ss kid who thinks NT is the be
all and end all. Love it!!!! I'm resisting his push to NT-ize my new puter.
Angela
At 11:23 AM 4/6/98 +0100, you wrote:
>skydyes@juno.com wrote:
>>
>
>
>> No! Stop! Don't buy the Matrox Millenium II just yet! Sorry,
><snip>
>> The damn things won't run fractint at anything
>> over (I think) SF3, Now, this may be a
>> Windows NT's fault, it's more than likely,
>
>
>Just to add in a positive note here, I've just accuired a matrox Millenium II
>with 8Mb and it works perfectly from dos, just select Sylvie's Matrox
1600x1200
>mode from the video mode list and bingo! ultra high res fractals :-)
>
>>From NT though is a different story as you've discovered, HAL says "I'm
sorry, I can't let you do that"!
>(techie joke alert! .. HAL = Hardware Abstraction Layer = part of NT that
sits between applications and the actual
>hardware of the machine and causes confusion
>when dos apps like fractint try and access the video cards directly )
>
>I find the same problem with my NT machine at work which has a different
video
>card (cirrus logic ) , it won't run a full screen dos session any higher
than 640x480x256 ... which is the maximum that
>was available on the original VGA cards which is what the HAL is probably
designed around.
>
>Disk video should work however so you can use the low res mode to search
for the
>right image, switch to disk video to render it, then display the resultant
file using a windows image viewing program...
>a bit long winded but workable.
>
>Hope this helps a bit,
> Robin.
>
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